Enhance your fashion industry knowledge with TaF.tc's Diploma in Fashion Business. Focus on merchandising and marketing, including digital marketing and e-commerce. Enroll now and kick-start your fashion business.
The TaF.tc Diploma in Fashion Business is a must for those who are interested to enter a career in the fashion industry, or for practitioners who wish to upgrade their skills. This programme will focus on two areas: Merchandising – which encompasses in-depth product knowledge on fabric, design, product development, apparel production, and quality control; and secondly, Marketing – which covers retail merchandise buying, branding, creating a sustainable value chain, as well as the critical skill of the Art of Follow-Up, which helps to ensure that you will source, produce and deliver the final product in-store, on-time. Need to keep pace with new trends in digital marketing and e-commerce? This programme will also provide a comprehensive coverage of concepts you’ll need to kick-start your fashion business.
Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Full Time: 4-5
Part Time: 11-12
Blended
Everything you learn at TaF.tc can be applied to your professional life in fashion and will be taught by industry practitioners through interactive workshops, whether online or in TaF.tc's Sewing Labs.
Our partners and advisors are as close to home as Thailand or Japan and as far as Italy or the UK. Tap into a professional community built over decades of industry immersion.
Our career support connects you to jobs available on the market, opportunities for further studies, and resources to help you start your own brand.
Modern consumers rely on more than just advertising and word-of-mouth reviews in order to make a purchase decision. In fact, they are increasingly relying on Google searches - not only to find the best product for their needs, but also to find new products they might not have even considered before. In this environment, being able to pre-empt and address the needs of potential consumers via Google is increasingly important in drawing new customers to your product. In this module, you will learn the basics of how to create a Google Ads Search advertising campaign from scratch, understand how Google AdWords works, and how to measure and fine-tune your AdWords campaign parameters for optimal results. Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Registered Title:WSQ Paid Search Engine Marketing SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:08:00
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is widely regarded as an important and fundamental part of any digital marketer’s arsenal, yet it still remains very misunderstood by many who still follow SEO techniques from the 1990’s and early 2000’s. SEO has come a long way since then, with Google setting quality benchmarks that all websites need to aspire to, or else face possible penalisation in their SEO rankings. This SEO course in Singapore will help you learn what SEO is, the basics of optimising your website such that it will enhance your site's search rank and performance, and how to use tools to conduct competitor benchmarking.
Registered Title:WSQ Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:08:00
Inbound Marketing is the art of attracting, retaining, and cultivating new leads to your brand and product. This is done by creating valuable content or experiences that educate and delight your customer while satisfying their needs. In this module, you will experience using the basics of a Customer Relationship Management system (CRM), set up a customer database and mailing list, and understand how to reach out to customers via blog posts, email newsletters and videos. Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Registered Title:WSQ Inbound Marketing SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:16:00
In today’s world, social media communication is key focus for all businesses. In this social media marketing course, you will learn to identify marketing communication opportunities in new media, how to develop marketing communication plans, and how to evaluate the effectiveness of the social media platform in raising brand profile. The unit is delivered through lectures, group activities, Q&A sessions, group discussions and presentations. Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Registered Title:WSQ Social Media Management SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:16:00
Traditional brick-and-mortar retail outlets are increasingly facing challenges across multiple fronts – from rising labour costs, to high rentals and overheads. In such a competitive environment, new businesses may find their profit margins rapidly eroded, which is why e-commerce platforms are becomingly critical to lean start-ups. In this module, you’ll learn the basics of setting up, maintaining, and operating an e-commerce store from stocktaking to shipping. You will also learn the fundamentals of how to enhance your customer’s online experience, such that you will be able to differentiate yourself in a crowded e-commerce environment. Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Registered Title:E-Fashion Business SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:16:00
There has been an increasing focus on environmental sustainability in recent years. Sustainability strategies are now a major concern with higher demand for a reduced carbon footprint and natural resource conservation. To remain competitive, companies need to reduce the social and environmental impact of their supply chains. This course aims to help you address the demand by going in a green direction and building a sustainable fashion brand. Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Registered Title:Sustainable Fashion Value Chain SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:18:00
In the world of fast fashion today, managing production efficiency to achieve prompt delivery is key to success. Learn the art and science of production tracking and risk management in this course. This course will prepare you to handle multiple processes involved in life cycle of product from design concept to retail floor using production tracking tools. Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Registered Title:Fashion Supply Chain Management SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:26:00
Go beneath the surface and learn various textiles, down to the fibers and the processes involved in weaving, dyeing and much more. This comprehensive course provides you with the ability to identify fabrics by their industry’s name, the fundamental knowledge to help you understand the risks of using certain fabrics, empowering you with the ability to trouble shoot issues related to textiles limitations. You will experience screen printing in class, e-learning and receive a complimentary copy of your very own fabric reference library consisting of 50 – 60 different types of fabric swatches. Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Registered Title:Textile Processes and Principles SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:34:00
Learn how a garment is made from pattern drafting, cutting and sewing. With the basic knowledge in drafting and sewing, you can progress to making patterns and sewing. This course covers basic threading of the industrial sewing machine and sewing techniques. Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Registered Title:Drafting and Sewing: Casual Knits SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:36:00
Start evaluating the commercial viability of your design/collection. Learn how to take steps towards fulfilling it through effective cost negotiation and a keen understanding of your costs based on design sketches/samples. Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Registered Title:Material and Apparel Costing SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:36:00
Branding can play a significant part to make your brand stand out from the crowd, particularly in competitive markets. You will have an intensive, interactive, hands-on understanding of how to create your own brand from scratch including your brand name, logo, identifying your unique selling proposition, identifying your target market, brand positioning and developing the sales and marketing strategy. Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Registered Title:Fashion Brand Management SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:26:00
Starting your own fashion business but unsure of the viability of your business plan? This course offers you a step by step approach to achieve your goal and help you develop a road map for your business. This module covers the creation of retail concept, conduct consumer demographic studies, research and develop sales and marketing strategies, merchandise strategies, financial plans and budgets as well as developing forecasts with action plans for reality checks. A good business plan with financials is time consuming but an absolute essential for you to have a successful business that’s going to survive the initial start-up. Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Registered Title:Fashion Business Plan Development SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:35:00
Take your design from paper to working digital file using computer aided design software such as Adobe illustrator with our digital fashion design course in Singapore. You will learn how to draw various fashion illustrations and render them on this platform to reflect the qualities and details of your design. A must technique for every fashion designer to convey creative concept in a professional presentation with technical specification. Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Registered Title:Digital Drawings for Fashion SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:28:00
Technical drawing is an important tool to turn your creative thoughts into reality. Learn to communicate the details of your garments accurately and clearly to your manufacturer to ensure error-free production. Interpret and Draw Production Sketches
Registered Title:Intermediate Production Sketching SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:34:00
Wish to know how to build quality into your products? Join this course to learn about the principles of quality management, statistical sampling, defects classification, product testing, safety standards, sample evaluation and report writing. The multifaceted delivery will aid you in identifying problem areas and developing solutions to assure quality in the end product. Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Registered Title:Quality Management in Fashion SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:33:00
In today’s world, buying according to market trends and consumer demands is important to remain competitive in the fashion industry. This course aims to equip you with skills to forecast, budget and plan merchandising assortment with key focus on consumer centric buying and relevancy to market merchandising concept. Conducted in multifaceted manner, get the skills needed to maximize customer satisfaction and create lasting synergy between customer and brand. Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Registered Title:Intermediate Fashion Merchandise Buying SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:35:00
Strategic sourcing enhances efficiency and value, ultimately impacting the profitability of any organization. In this essential course, you’ll learn how to develop and implement a sourcing strategy. Conducted in multifaceted approach, you will acquire key skills such as sourcing tactics for various materials, supplier selection, vendor management, negotiation, effective communication and comprehension of import/export regulation and agreement between countries. Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Registered Title:Global Sourcing in Fashion SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:26:00
With the growing trend of buyers asking for value-added services, only factories who can offer design and product development services can compete in the global arena. Garment manufacturers have to develop their own product development team to meet their buyers’ requirements. It is also imperative to create the most relevant collection in the shortest time for the buyers, as lead time gets shorter. Product development is not just about the creation of new samples – it has to meet the criteria and the needs of the buyers. This course covers the various aspect of product development. From understanding the customers to the creation of design, articulate the various elements of product development and how to meet these challenges in the shortest possible time while giving the buyers the right product at the right time. Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Registered Title:Apparel Product Development SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:36:00
Learn all the fundamentals of garment construction in a week. Be exposed to the techniques employed in the fashion industry including how garments are constructed and the various seams and stitches utilized in the different components of a garment. With this knowledge, you can minimize impractical designs that cannot be replicated in mass production, eliminate misinterpretation in sampling and production, and improve communication in production specifications. Funding Period: 1st March 2021 to end Feb 2024
Registered Title:Garment Construction SSG Approved Training & Assessments Hours:26:00Upon successful completion of each module within the course, you will be awarded the Workforce Skills Qualification (WSQ) Statement of Attainment (SOA) by SkillsFuture Singapore, or TaF.tc's Certificate of Competency. After successful completion of all modules within the course, you will be awarded the WSQ Diploma in Fashion Technology (Merchandising & Marketing), and the Diploma in Fashion Business certification by TaF.tc. TaF.tc diploma and advance diploma are accredited by institutes globally. For more information please go here to check our accreditations or to contact Louise Clement at louiseclement@taftc.org or Miriam at miriam@taftc.org
You will need a laptop OR computer OR tablet*, whichever you prefer, for viewing your E-books and E-Learning.
*Devices need to have a working camera and a microphone.
Your TaF.tc Sewing Tool Kit - If you have not purchased it before, please refer here for the full list.
The Diploma will be done both online via Zoom, and offline at our Central Plaza campus (Tiong Bahru MRT) and Thye Hong Campus (near Redhill MRT).
Not at all! You can enrol for our Diploma programme without any prior experience, as long as you have a passion for fashion!
The Fashion Business Diploma will be split into 5 main categories which will cover the fundamentals of fashion design, fashion business essentials, production and manufacturing processes, digital marketing, and developing a comprehensive business plan to wrap up everything you’ve learnt in the Diploma.
Most definitely! Upon completion of your Diploma programme, you will be awarded a hardcopy WSQ Diploma certificate from us, and you can also access the softcopy via your MySkillsFuture portal!
As an Edutrust and Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ) certified training centre, with 11 top fashion schools recognising our Diplomas for accreditation programmes like Paris College Of Art and Atelier Chardon Savard, TaF.tc continues to stay in line with leading national and international fashion industry standards.
Yes we will! Whether it's through promoting your brand on our alumni portal THE LABEL SG, or providing mentorships and consultations to further your studies, we’ve got your back!
The courses are conducted in the form of lectures, discussions, demonstrations, case studies, practical exercises, and hands-on activities. You will then be assessed on the work you have done with a final evaluation at the end of every course.
